CRICH PARISH

Hector McLarty (1893–1918) ✞

Lance Corporal

King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

43154

9th Battalion

Photo courtesy Joyce Denton

NotesHector was born in 1893, the son of police inspector John McLarty, a Scotsman, and his wife Ellen. Hector was born in Willington near Derby but in 1911 the family were living at Plaistow Green, Crich. Hector was killed on 20th September 1918 aged twenty-five and is buried at Five Points Cemetery, Lechelle, near Arras.